Slavko Kvaternik

Slavko Kvaternik (25 August 1878-7 June 1947) was Minister of the Armed Forces of the Independent State of Croatia from 10 April 1941 to 4 January 1943, preceding Ante Pavelic.

Biography
Slavko Kvaternik was born on 25 August 1878 in Moravice, Croatia-Slavonia, Austria-Hungary to a family of Catholic Croats (his mother's father Josip Frank was originally Jewish). Kvaternik served as an aide to Field Marshal Svetozar Boroevic, and Kvaternik commanded the Croatian Home Guard before he was named Minister of the Armed Forces of the Independent State of Croatia during World War II after Nazi Germany set up Croatia as a puppet state. He oversaw the mass execution of Jews, Serbs, Romani, and anti-fascists, and he created the Jasenovac concentration camp; his son Dido Kvaternik headed the internal security service of Croatia. Kvaternik was executed for war crimes by Yugoslavia on 7 June 1947.